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Please take note: On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. For information about how this development may potentially affect you, click here.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes.” But for lesbian, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people (LGBT) and people living with HIV, there’s an added concern:

We must take extra measures in life and financial planning to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the potentially devastating effects of an unjust, discriminatory system.

Below are useful materials for download.

We are grateful for the support of the Anita May Rosenstein Foundation which has generously underwritten portions of this campaign.

IRS Community Property 101

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that it will apply community property laws to California, Washington, and Nevada registered domestic partners and California same-sex spouses to reflect "income-splitting"—in the same way that it applies those laws to different-sex married couples who file their federal income tax returns separately.